Netflix on S7

A new version (there are differences from the previously leaked one) of the Netflix APK has been officially released in the market for SOME phones. XDA Developers have also released a version of their own.

I gave it a shot loading the XDA version (I can't get the Market one) on the Huawei IDEOS S7 running the Indonesian 2.2.2 ROM Rooted.

The apk installs fine, you can log in fine, there are NO ERRORS about your "phone" not being supported (which is very common based on forum readings - my android phone gives that error).

When you click a movie to play, the movie player opens, title of the movie and progress bar appear at the bottom and you can hear about 1 second of sound.

All seems good, BUT then after that 1 second of sound, the player abruptly stops and goes back to the netflix menus.

After I installed the app, a Adobe Flash 10.3 update just happened to appear, which had not shown previously, so I updated that, but still no luck. Rebooted several times, battery pull, with and without T-Mobile SIM installed. No luck.

Any ideas? We seem REALLY close to having this work. The device even shows as registered on my netflix account.

Is anyone else able to stream Netflix? I just get the queue working and when I try to stream a movie, the loading screen starts and then it kicks me back to the queue. I have tried a few different .apk's. The one currently installed gives me an error instead of kicking back to the queue. The error is:

Sorry we could not reach the Netflix service. Please try again later. If the problems persists please visit netflix.com.(1005)

I have tried all the version that I could find. I was doing the same thing on my droidX as the rom I was on would not run it either. I moved to the newest stock Gingerbread leak and it works great on my X. Just wish there was a version out there that we could get to work on the S7.

I haven't had a chance to upgrade to 2.2 yet (I have 2.1 on the Best Buy version). I have gotten the xda "device check disabled" version to run on my mid-range Moto Milestone phone (and from looking at various apps, the S7 is more powerful than my Milestone).

Have any of you done a logcat on the S7 to see if there are errors being logged there?

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